Tuesday, December 21, 2010

PM slaps down business minister over Murdoch remarks

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron stripped his business secretary of key powers Tuesday over what he termed "totally unacceptable and inappropriate" remarks about media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Cameron's spokesman said that Vince Cable, a senior Liberal Democrat member of the Conservative-led coalition, would no longer have a say in Murdoch's bid to take full control of pay TV giant BSkyB, and his department would lose other powers.
The prime minister acted after Cable told undercover newspaper reporters that he had "declared war" on Murdoch and planned to block his New Corporation's 7.75-billion-pound bid for BSkyB.
"You may wonder what is happening with the Murdoch press," Cable told the Daily Telegraph reporters, who were posing as constituents. "I have declared war on Mr Murdoch and I think we're going to win."

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